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This advice from Dorothy Parker is too late for those doing #NaNoWriMo, but still helpful!

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Quote on top of a typewriter: "If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, teh second greatest favor you can do them is present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy." -Dorothy Parker, The collected Dorothy Parker
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Writing advice from #KurtVonnegut:

"Rules only take us so far, even good rules."

That said, "let the bear have your coffee" is one to always follow.

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Kurt Vonnegut having a coffee, standing next to a stuffed polar bear standing on its hind legs
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I submitted the manuscript for my next book!

It's a collection of folktales about misunderstood / underappreciated animals. Bats, sharks, wolves, rats, spiders, etc. I managed to find cool stories for each, and in every one of them the animal is portrayed in a positive light.

It was one heck of a research project, and I really enjoyed it 😄

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#Nature #animals #books #bookstodon #amwriting

This is the team that comes up with my story ideas.

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chimp and a boy wearing grey suits, 3-D glasses and tinfoil hats with a Geiger counter and notepad
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Francis Bacon provides “a tight and fitting set of lessons for development into a strong and well-thought-of worker in any area of endeavor” #blog #amwriting #literature

https://therationalthinkersblog.blogspot.com/2024/05/lessons-from-francis-bacons-of-great.html

Lessons from Francis Bacon's Of Great Place

Francis Bacon's essay,  Of Great Place , provides a tight and fitting set of lessons for development into a strong and well-thought-of worke...
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I am working on this "folktales about misunderstood animals" collection for children. However, I am accidentally accumulating a bunch of tales about misunderstood animals that are only fit for adults* 😄

I don't think my publisher would go for it, but now I want to work on it anyway...

(* no, not THAT way, just in terms of violence or complexity.)

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Looks like my next folktale collection is going to be about misunderstood animals 🥰😊 What are your favorite misunderstood, misrepresented, or underappreciated animals?

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#Nature #animals #folklore #storytelling #folktales #amwriting

When people ask me where I get my ideas from I like to show them this picture.

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military person wearing some kind of strange helmet with electrodes on the outside of it, and a gas mask, sitting at a typewriter.
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From the cat's perspective it's all useless junk and must go.

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Infographic of things on a writer's desk: useless junk 32% pens 3% computer 6% old coffee cups 13% editing notes 26% books & notebooks 19% cat 100%
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I once asked a writer friend why she wrote, and she replied, with total sincerity: "For revenge."

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sign in the shape of an artists palette, with brushes on the side, that says: Study Art for prestige or spite
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Just hit SEND on my Forgotten Greek Myths manuscript 😊

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Time for the last read-through of this manuscript, or as I like to call it, De-Semicolonization

😄

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I am finishing up my mythology manuscript this week, and it is really hard to let this one go... I had too much fun with the stories. I found a lot of forgotten Greek and Roman myths or myth variants that surprised and delighted me. It was like a huge puzzle to play with.

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I have seen more neighbors today than any time we've lived here.

Because it's a holiday and everyone is working in their yards.

Of course, the pupper dog wants to go outside and meet everyone but I want to work on my #AmWriting #Writing #Editing

Who will win?...
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